Device for carrying spare wheels or tires on motor-cars.



' PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908.

A. J. BAILEY. DEVICE FOR CARRYING SPARE WHEELS OR TIRES ON MOTOR OARs.

APPLIOAT IQN FILED MAY 28, 1907.

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DBYIGB FOR CARRYING SPA RE WHEELS 0R TIRES ON MOTOR CARS.

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D E VIGBPOR CA RRYING SPARE WHEELS 0R TIRES ON MOTOR CARS.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZB, 1901.

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ALFRED .lUllh .lHlllIY, Ul" SKI/FORD, ENGLAND.

DEVICE FOR CARRYING SPARE WHEELS OR TIRES ON MOTOR-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented March 31, 1908.

Application filed May 28, 1907. Serial No. 376,180.

To all whom it may roncemb- Be it known that l, ALFRED dons BAILEY,sub]ect oi the King of Great Britain. residing at'Albion l l'orlrs,Salford, in the county of Lancaster, England. have invented an improvedDevice for Carrying Spare Wheels or Tires on Motor-Cars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved device for carrying a spare wheel,or rim and tire, or tire only on a motor car.

This device consists of a ring or carrier frame with clips orequivalents designed to hold the spare wheel or tire and mounted toswivel upon a vertical axis fixed upon either side or at the back orfront of the car. By this arrangement the complete spare wheel or rimand tire, or tire only, is securely held ready for use if re uired andcan be swung back on the vertica axis of the holder out of the way whenentering or leaving the carer while the car is being cleaned or for anyother purpose and can then be swung back again and fastened in place.

' In the accompen s-in; four sheets of drawings-Figure 1 represents aside elevation of a motor car to which my improved device is applied.Fig. 2 is a side elevation of part of Fig. 1 with the improved device ina different position. Figs. 3, 4E, and 5 are detail views of theimproveddevice on a larger scale, Fig. 3 being a side elevation, Fig. 4 aplanand Fig. 5 a side elevation showing the device carrying a complete sparemotor wheel. Fig. 6 is a transverse section on line .55 of Fig. 5,

omitting the vertical pillar, and Fig. 7 is a similar view but showing atire only instead of a complete spare wheel.

In the .lrawings,a designates part of the frame of a motor car: I) avertical pillar bolted upon the footplate of the car as shown in fulland dotted lines; c, c" hinges which form hearings for the carrier; (Z abracket secured to the frame as av stay for the pillar; c a ring ofmetal or other suitable inaLerial forming the carrier frame andconnertcd directly'to.

the upper hinge c and to the lower hinge the bracket j: angle bracketssecured tothe.

carrier to receive the spare tire see Fig. 7, or a;

complete wheel with 1 ut clips of its ownyh a locking screw for holdingthe device in the closed position. or 111. place of the screw it aspring latch might be cinloyed; j the adjustable clips and j thelix'el'dbracket for locking the spare wheel to the car Wheel in themanner well understood by motorists and to the carrier asshown best in.Fig. 6.

If desired the vertical pillar I) might be supported in an additional.bracket k, 1;- cured to the side frame of the car, as shown in dottedlines Fig. 3, and in such case either the footstep support or thebracket (Z or both supports might be dispensed with.

The device. carrying a spare wheel such as the Stepney wheel and tire Zis shown in Fig. 1 in the position it would occupy while the car wasrunning; and in Fig. 2 itis shown opened or swung back to facilitatecleaning the car or for taking off the spare wheel.

I am aware that prior to my present in vention it has been. proposed toconstruct a carrier for spare pneumatic or other tires, which isarranged to swing back close to the motor car body when not in use, thatis to say when the spare tire is not mounted on the carrier, which inordinary practice consists of three such. arms each swinging oradjustable from a separate point on the car; whereas in my arrangementthe clips or equivalents fasten the tire to one ring or carrier which ismounted to swing from a single vertical axis, and it will thus be seenthat my invention does not lie in any particular plan for securing aspare. wheel or tire to its carrier, but consists in the par ticularmode herein described and illustrated of connecting and. hinging a ringor carrier frame to the car.

What I claim. and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates is 1. In combination with an automobile, a vertical standardmounted thereon, a frame extending laterally from the standard, ineansfor swiveling the frame on the standard, and means for holding a'tire tothe frame.

2. In combination with. an automobile, a vertical standard mountedthereon, a ring shaped frame-extending laterally from the standard,means/for swiveling the frame to the standard, and means for holding atire .to the frame.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name-to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

7 f ALFRED JOHN BAILEY.

nesses:

iI IENRYIBERNOULLI BARLOW, HE BERT ROWLAND ABBEY.

